The TePP Outreach cum Cluster Innovation Centre at CSIR-CGCRI has been set up as a Twelfth Five Year Plan programme to promote innovations in individuals, start-ups and MSMEs. The Centre is mandated to drive inclusive growth through technological enablement of stakeholders. The large student base of the state covering schools, degree colleges, engineering colleges, polytechnics and vocational institutions represent the main catchment of prospective innovators who are envisaged to drive the inverted innovation value chain. Besides, the programme would also target faculty, first-time entrepreneurs, farmers, artisans etc. Capacity building would thus represent one of the major outcomes of this programme.

The CSIR-CGCRI Centre endeavours towards nurturing an integrated ecosystem of innovation by dovetailing this initiative with other collateral programmes focusing MSMEs such as the Technology Facilitation Centre, the National Rural Livelihood Mission, UNESCO Rural Crafts Hub and so on.

Keeping in view logistic advantages, the CSIR-CGCRI TOCIC would normally focus upon North and South 24-Parganas, Nadia, Hooghly and Howrah districts of the state of West Bengal.

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Call for Proposal under PRISM
PRISM (Promoting Innovations in Individuals, Start-ups and MSMEs) scheme of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Government of India aims to support individual innovators, autonomous institutions, registered societies and MSME so as to achieve the agenda of inclusive development. The scheme is implemented through a set of TePP Outreach cum Cluster Innovation Centres (TOCICs). PRISM provides grants, technical guidance and mentoring to individual innovators and technology solution providers......